Category: My writing

I always have a playlist when I write my books. It gets me into the mood of the book so each playlist is different. For The Vitruvian Mask, the music was very focused. Basically I listened to Unwoman’s album Casualties and part of Bowie’s Low on repeat. That was a lot of repeat. I thought it would be fun to share the playlist with you all. Enjoy!

Also, you can see Unwoman live in April at Clockwork Alchemy! https://www.clockworkalchemy.com

Haha, I forgot, I am going to be there too! Unwoman is AWESOME in concert.
And if you want to pick up some of her music, check it out at Bandcamp. I love supporting indie artists. 🙂

My new book, “The Vitruvian Mask”, is coming April 7 to major retailers, but the ebook is available NOW at #Smashwords for immediate purchase and reading! #presale

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I just got home from my first plane trip in close to five years. It was a bit nervewracking tbh. I was happy to be home and even happier to see this.

Yep, it’s the very first print copy of The Vitruvian Mask. I was really tired so my happy dance was more of a happy wiggle. It looks really good in person, with no issues. It’s a book! With words! MY words. Oh my.

I wanted the covers for the Roboticist of Versailles books to match so needed to redesign The Archimedean Heart. I had a lot of fun collaborating with my daughter on cover designs.

What do you think? What kind of book do you think it is?

Here’s the cover for the Vitruvian Mask. What do you think?

The Vitruvian Mask, the full sequel to the Archimedean Heart is FINALLY done. As in ready to publish. <shocked face>
With many thanks to my extremely talented editor AJ Sikes and my kind and inspirational readers, Dover Whitecliff and Sharon Cathcart.

Here’s what it’s about:

The electric lights of Paris have been extinguished.
1882. The Naturalist revolution is over. Adelaide, once Doctor-Scientist for the old queen of France, was on the losing side. Now she’s hiding from the new king’s Police Sécrète.
Pregnant and alone, she seeks refuge in a Parisian hospital but things have changed there too. What was once a cathedral of Science is now a bastion of ignorance and superstition.
The battlefield veterans whose Augmented prosthetics she once created are now shunned by the new regime and come to the hospital for her help. But her nemesis and the father of her child has returned to France and threatens to reveal her to the authorities.
Can Adelaide repair her Augmented patients without losing her freedom … or her life?
The Vitruvian Mask continues the story of Adelaide Coumain, the Roboticist of Versailles, that began in The Archimedean Heart.

Coming soon: the cover reveal. Then a special giveaway for my subscribers.

The Vitruvian Mask, the next episode in the saga of the Roboticist of Versailles, will be published next year (WOOHOO!) so I thought it time to collect all of the those stories in one page on the blog. Everything from the early origin stories of Adelaide Coumain, the Roboticist of Versailles, to her most recent adventures can be accessed from that page. And there will soon be bonus content. Yes, free stories!

Pandemic time is weird. Hoping the pandemic is waning and life can be, I dunno, normal-ish?

So what have you been up to?

I wish I could say I had spent the lockdown producing like mad but nope. I survived. I didn’t get sick. But I didn’t finish a book nor did I start one. But I am crawling out of my creative void and editing the Vitruvian Mask! Stay tuned.